| Synopsis |
Authors Purpose |
Genre |
| Martha, a mouse who takes refuge in a movie theater, loves to watch the films, and one day starts to sing along, to the dismay of the audience |
Entertain |
Fantasy |
RDQ
(Reading Difficulty Quotient) |
Accelerated Reader |
Lexile
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Find at |
| 982 |
3.6 |
740 |
Amazon
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| RDQ based on a maximum of 3000 words |
Levels are suggested levels based on RDQ, not official levels |
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| Sentences |
Total Words |
Different Words |
| Max Word/Sent |
32 |
Total # of Words |
1196 |
# of Different Words |
538 |
| Ave Word/.Sent |
10 |
Hi Freq occurs |
774 |
64.7% |
# of Hi freq words |
210 |
39% |
| % of Long Sentences |
7 |
Low Freq occurs |
64 |
5.4% |
# of Low freq words |
59 |
11% |
| Subjective
Criteria |
| Illustrations: Some support |
| Vocabulary: More decoding/definition issues |
| Language: Colorful, figurative |
| Sentences: Some Long/Complex |
| Text structure: Difficult |
| Concept: Fanciful |
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| Topics |
| Environment |
| Dance/Dancing |
| Mice |
| Theatre |
| Movies |
| *Entertainment & Fun |
| *Habitats/Environments |
| Performing |
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| Low Frequency Words |
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aglow |
appealing |
audience |
bouquet |
bravo |
chandelier |
cigars |
circuit |
commotion |
despair |
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dismay |
fandango |
fewer |
flickers |
gangster |
gavotte |
gentleman |
happiest |
haunting |
headlines |
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islands |
ladies |
lament |
lively |
lobby |
luck's |
motion |
mouseplace |
mousetrap |
mousetraps |
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mousy |
muddle |
ovation |
peephole |
pleasant |
pleasure |
policemen |
projected |
projector |
projector's |
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regret |
resist |
scarce |
seldom |
serene |
sewer |
sleet |
spotlights |
swirls |
tango |
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tarantella |
terrified |
theater |
twitched |
waltzed |
wandered |
warmth |
whiskers |
windowsill |
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